Might as well have one of these too. There's no sense in pretending that "the liberal media" is a label that uniformly applies anymore. This thread is for discussing conservative media bias, beyond just Fox News.

Topic starter: Rush Limbaugh is the devil.

11/19/2009 3:18:03 PM

There's too much

11/19/2009 3:22:20 PM

lulz in this thread.... you must have thought you were posting in chit chat

11/19/2009 3:30:47 PM

^ No, but I'm amused by your attempt to turn it into a CC thread.

11/19/2009 3:32:45 PM

Grumpy is just going to ask you to elaborate, and then lull us all to sleep with his retort.

11/19/2009 3:35:47 PM

Republicans involved in scandals temporarily become Democrats for the purposes of news reporting.

11/19/2009 4:12:13 PM

lulz this week from Fatass Limbaugh... he offered some out-of-work caller a whole bunch of anti-stress products because he "could tell" that the guy was "stressed." No offer to help get him a job, no offer to do something substantive. Just unprompted shilling for one of his sponsors.

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"CALLER: You know, I'm 49 years old and in my time -- I actually regret this -- I admit I actually voted for Jimmy Carter. RUSH: Well, this may be your payback. CALLER: Well, yeah, but I also voted for Bill Clinton in his first term. I didn't in the second term. RUSH: Oh-ho-ho-ho. CALLER: Payback but -- RUSH: You didn't vote for Obama, did you? CALLER: No, I didn't, sir. RUSH: All right. CALLER: And I couldn't imagine voting for him. It just... You know, it was more of a gut feeling than anything -- RUSH: You know, I want to give you something. I can hear the stress. I can hear the nervousness. I am going to give you a bunch of HoMedics massagers. They're one of our best sponsors here. They're Snerdley's favorite sponsor, and they are fabulous, and the price is not that expensive at all. They start at $29.99. Hold on for Snerdley to get your address. At least while you're looking for a job you can get a massage at the same time on us."

11/22/2009 9:54:49 AM

Rush Limbaugh is a moron. That being said, he has never portrayed himself as a journalist and, hence, subject to the irrational expectations of neutrality that reporters purport to hold themselves to.


The only news outlet with a significant right wing bias which (theoretically) holds itself to a journalistic standard is Fox. They've already got their own thread.



This thread is scraping the bottom of TSB.

11/22/2009 10:02:11 AM

*shrug* This thread is about media in general. I didn't say anything about reporters or journalism. Oh, and keep scraping, you'll find much worse.

11/22/2009 10:07:49 AM

Every time I see this thread, it reminds me of that type of guy who tries to start a "white men's empowerment" group at college.

11/22/2009 10:17:24 AM

lawl, ok, fine.

11/22/2009 10:25:40 AM

i dont' know. there's more than just fox news. have you ever seen morning joe? or even hell nearly ANY of the sunday morning shows. most of the nightly news broadcasts may not be directly pro-conservative, but they're all very corporatist. saying that there's a liberal bias to the news has been pretty inaccurate for a generation.

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2009 12:18:52 PM

k

http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/mens-rights-groups-have-become-frighteningly-effective

11/22/2009 12:24:08 PM

Wow, that article has some disturbing language:

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"who say it imposes an absurd equivalence between largely nonviolent family spats or insubstantial female violence and serious abuse. But groups like RADAR are criticizing the law for the wrong reasons. In fact, the effect of mandatory arrest in conflating women’s low-level violence with battery, seems very close to RADAR’s campaign for viewing women as equal domestic abusers."

So the implication here is that as long as the woman doesn't do any lasting physical damage, that violence is A-OK, or at least not worth getting worked up about. That's some real gender equality right there.

11/22/2009 12:37:12 PM

^^^ I think you're hitting on something more important there, but corporatist =/= right wing.



But seriously, calling MSNBC out for Morning Joe? Out of your freaking mind. That channel is 21 hours of screeching left wing ignorance jack-hammering away at it's frivolously tiny share of the market.

11/22/2009 12:39:34 PM

I def wouldn't call out the whole network for being too conservative, but i've always thought morning joe was disproportionately rightwing. The sunday morning news show claim is ludicrous, though.

11/29/2009 4:05:56 AM

I like when ppl like the OP stick their heads out and say "xxxxxx is the devil"

ha.

first you are invoking religion using such a term as 'devil' which i'm sure you don't want to go there and stir up some crazy kook santa clause believing evangelists. ha

second. 0 evidence. but it's the same 'scientific process' you use in CLIMATEGATE so i'm sure you'll consider it 'scientific'

third. unlike your right counterparts, you're only goal is not show(and fail) the unbalance of media influence, but to actually limit freedom of speech by those who do not follow your views.

11/29/2009 11:42:46 AM

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"I like when ppl like the OP stick their heads out and say "xxxxxx is the devil" ha. first you are invoking religion using such a term as 'devil' which i'm sure you don't want to go there and stir up some crazy kook santa clause believing evangelists. ha"

Oh, look. "I want to go secede so i can kill some nazi liberals" man has something to say.

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"third. unlike your right counterparts, you're only goal is not show(and fail) the unbalance of media influence, but to actually limit freedom of speech by those who do not follow your views."

You seriously want to go down the free speech argument path? You haven't paid much attention to things that you're not spoon-fed. You mean like how every interview with Bill O'Reilly is about him interrupting, badgering and generally being condescending to his guests with opposing viewpoints? Like how he repeatedly has asked to have his guests' mic's cut?

11/29/2009 12:12:54 PM

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"Grumpy is just going to ask you to elaborate, and then lull us all to sleep with his retort."

What the fuck? I hadn't even posted here.

But yes, I do generally go out of my way to put you all to sleep. I post from a laptop just outside your home, and when I'm sure you're out I go in to steal your booze, poison your pets, and rape your buttholes.

11/29/2009 7:57:17 PM

Ok, so which one of you is going to make the 'the serious issue of reverse racism thread in america' thread????

any takers?

11/29/2009 9:38:20 PM

afirmative action is racism. enough said. and if theres right wing bias its to counter all the DOMINANT left wing bias from cnn nbc, abc, washington compost (lol) and all that.

11/29/2009 9:41:20 PM

Climate-cult con is hard to 'bear'
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/net_result_sure_beats_nut_revolt_qafIP4m2M9TAty2eLxyz5M

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" My daughter came home from school re cently with a spring in her step and a song on her lips. With no foreshadowing -- or time to call an exorcist -- out came this chilling refrain: " . . . You can hear the warning -- GLOBAL WARMING . . . " By the time her father and I removed our jaws from the floor, we had learned that: A) All the kids had been coerced into singing this catchy ditty, which we called "The Warming Song," at a concert for parents. B) Further song lyrics scolded selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming scourge that would, in no short order, kill all the polar bears and threaten the birds and bees. C) There was no deprogramming session on the menu. And no arguing allowed."

Oh noes! Little Susie is singing about how adults are fucking up the environment! What a terrible thing it is to have her telling us how stupid we've been! Thank you SO MUCH, NYPost, for pointing how how wrong Little Susie is for telling us to stop being a bunch of fuckheads with the planet.

12/1/2009 12:03:22 AM

And while I'm at it, where did this stupid "climategate" label come from for those climatologists' e-mails? Can we get away from this stupid -gate suffix for everything?

12/1/2009 12:04:38 AM

i'd rather get rid of the stupid hitler labeling. everyone is made to be the next hitler now a days. bush 43 was hitler, now obama is hitler, etc etc etc.

12/1/2009 1:23:39 AM

Every time I see this thread, it reminds me of that type of guy who tries to start a "white men's empowerment" group at college.

12/1/2009 1:32:26 AM

^ Wrong topic, maybe you should start a thread for that.

12/1/2009 4:38:26 PM

You know who else had opinions about things?

Hitler.

12/1/2009 4:42:19 PM

He made the Jews wear them.

12/1/2009 6:07:38 PM

^^^ Maybe I should, except that, unlike you, I'm not that guy

[Edited on December 1, 2009 at 6:10 PM. Reason : s]

12/1/2009 6:10:00 PM

Why you gotta make it personal about me? Talk about the topic or GTFO.

12/1/2009 6:26:55 PM

I /am/ discussing the topic. Don't act butt-hurt because you've been called out for being butt-hurt.

When you complain about right-wing media bias, it reminds me of when white guys complain that they are the victims of racism. Both of you guys are so earnest and play such good victims lol...

12/1/2009 6:58:54 PM

^ So... it's cool for conservatives to be butt-hurt over their perceptions of left-wing media bias? Again with the making it personal.

12/1/2009 7:00:48 PM

Hey man... as I've said, that's just what it reminds me of... I like how you take offense so easily... Almost like its striking a nerve or something

12/1/2009 7:09:43 PM

Oh, you got me good, Katie! I'm very butt-hurt, I read all the newspapers, and you can see Russia from my apartment in Texas.

12/1/2009 7:29:46 PM

Katie is one example of sexism against men. Why was she selected to be an anchor instead of a man? It can only be attributable to sexism

12/1/2009 7:57:50 PM

And yet if you believe Palin's book, that recommendation to go with Katie was made by a woman, Nicole Wallace. And guess who set about vilifying Katie after that? The right-wing media. Oh dear.

12/1/2009 8:03:37 PM

Well of course the decision was made by a woman. That only proves how much of a struggle men are faced with as they try to advance their careers.

12/1/2009 8:06:58 PM

Oh bother.

12/1/2009 8:31:24 PM

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"if theres right wing bias its to counter all the DOMINANT left wing bias from cnn nbc, abc,"

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"most of the nightly news broadcasts may not be directly pro-conservative, but they're all very corporatist."

Seriously, how is corporate news left-wing?

12/1/2009 9:01:11 PM

news agencies owned by corporations are corporatist… alert the media!

12/1/2009 10:25:53 PM

just wait til Comcast buys NBC

12/2/2009 2:23:26 AM